UW V-93009, Lost Boys: Lancian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Adocus sp. Cope 1868
1 specimen
UW 27380
    = cf. Plastomeninae sp. Hay 1902
Holroyd and Hutchison 2002
spelled with current rank as Plastomenidae
Reptilia
Brachychampsa sp. Gilmore 1911
1 specimen
UW 27401
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Chasmosaurinae indet. Lambe 1915
1 specimen
UW 27431 "(=Triceratops sp.)"
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906
1 specimen
UW 27441
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825
1 specimen
UW 27347
Compsemys victus Leidy 1856
1 specimen
UW 27382
    = Lepisosteidae sp. Cuvier 1825
Holroyd and Hutchison 2002
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Cyclurus fragosa (Jordan 1927)
1 specimen
recombined as Cyclurus fragosus
UW 27329
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Carbon
Coordinates: 41.9° North, 106.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.9° North, 82.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Lancian
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ferris
Local section:Ferris Local bed:465 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Lancian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:UW
Metadata
Database number:75294
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Benson Enterer:M. Carrano, R. Benson
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-10-05 14:13:42 Last modified:2007-10-09 13:15:11
Access level:the public Released:2007-10-05 14:13:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2236. J. A. Lillegraven and J. J. Eberle. 1999. Vertebrate faunal changes through Lancian and Puercan time in southern Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 73(4):691-710 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

42536 P. A. Holroyd and J. H. Hutchison. 2002. Patterns of geographic variation in latest Cretaceous vertebrates: evidence from the turtle component. Geological Society of America Special Paper 361:177-190 [R. Benson/R. Benson]